THE Cultural Development Foundation (CDF) has successfully hosted the first December festival for 2018, the Lantern Competition.
The December Festivals are a series of three traditional festivals which aims to bring the nation together by showcasing creativity through a lantern competition, the Festival of Carols and the Festival of Lights ceremonies.
According to the GIS, the Lantern Competition was preceded by a series of training workshops in which participants perfected their lantern making skills.
It quoted CDF Senior Events and Production Officer, Yrone Harris, as saying that the Lantern Competition seeks to continue this tradition of lantern building in Saint Lucia which is traditionally a Christmas event.
“This year we were most surprised. The standard of the lanterns was certainly as expected and we have a number of new communities coming on, especially from the perspective of the workshops that we held in those communities, where we really got some good lanterns coming out of the workshops,” Harris said.
The results for the lantern competition were announced at the Festival of Lights on Wednesday (Dec) 12, at the Derek Walcott Square.
The participants made their way down to the Castries City Hall and then into the Derek Walcott Square.
Meanwhile, the Festival of Carols took place at the Church of Saint Anne in Mon Repos.